I started thinking more about what I think one of the big problems in early dating is for people right now.

And to me it's that people never get any momentum.

They don't get from a first conversation to a face time or an actual date.

Or they don't get from date one to date two.

Or they had momentum and they lost it and they don't have to get it back again with that person.

Hello my little cherubs, chuckles and chalston chews.

It is of course Stephen Hussie, the host of the Love Life podcast here with you today.

Hello and we have a very special topic today because we are going to be doing a special announcement at the end of this episode.

So hold on for that until the end and it is going to be all around the topic of texting.

Now if you want to confession listeners, I have been notoriously bad at texting over the last decade of my life.

I often struggle to get back to people. I go, oh I'll message them later and then forget to and then I'm messaging them saying, hey sorry I didn't get in touch.

I've had it in boss relationships or I've been a bad texture.

And now looking back I think man I could have had so much more fun, I could have been more creative, I could have been more thoughtful and reached out to people.

And done a lot more emotional connection through texting.

And you know to even talk about it as texting now as a separate thing from our lives seems anachronistic because it's what we do.

I mean if we're not talking on a messenger, we're talking on WhatsApp, we're talking on text with people, we're on Tinder, online dating, obviously many of us are now confined to smaller spaces because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

So texting is part of the lifeblood of communication now for where we are.

And it's also an opportunity, it's an opportunity to spark joy in someone we can flirt, we can actually create that excitement, that tension, that little spark in the early stages when we meet someone for the first time.

You know most people go on Tinder they go, oh hey how you doing? Yeah good, what'd you do?

I'm a accountant, oh right wicked, do you like going to the pub, let's go to the pub.

And then you move on because you think I can't live life like this and you decide not to meet up with them.

But if we're more creative, if we know how to actually have a few tools in our tool belt when we start texting, there are many more opportunities to actually meet people connect with those around us.

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